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Mobile agents are software programs which can move themselves around in computer networks to "do their job". Telescript is a technology specifically designed as a platform for such agents. This paper describes how Telescript agents can be created and controlled via ordinary web browsers and how they can interact with Java applets.
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Peter Dömel (2002) studied this question.